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  • SLFP’s Group of 16 meets MR
    A special discussion between former President and MP Mahinda Rajapaksa and the SLFP’s Group of 16 was held yesterday at his official residence at Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo....
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    Sri Lanka – Singapore Free-Trade Agreement‘Unlinked individuals restricted from independent movements’Strategic Development and International Trade Minister Malik...
  • Appointment of new SLFP office bearers by June 27
    Central Province Chief Minister and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Central Committee member Sarath Ekanayake said that new Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) office bearers would...
  • Group of 16 presents policy statement
    The 16 SLFP parliamentarians who left the government have presented a separate policy statement.According to former Minister Susil Premajayantha, the policy statement is...
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  • ‘Dead in war must be commemorated’
    Parliamentarian Chandrasiri Gajadeera yesterday said people died on both side in the war and they must be commemorated regardless of which side in Sri Lanka they lived,Gajadeera was addressing a...
  • Group of 16 presents policy statement
    The 16 SLFP parliamentarians who left the government have presented a separate policy statement.According to former Minister Susil Premajayantha, the policy statement is aiming at 21 areas which have...
  • SLFP to appoint interim board
    The SLFP Central Committee has decided to appoint a new temporary board of officials on June 3 to replace its present set of office-bearers party General Secretary and Emigration Water Resources and...
  • President tells CC: continuing in Govt.weakens SLFP
    President Maithripala Sirisena told the SLFP Central Committee (CC) to fix the date as to when the SLFP will quit the Government, SLFP Opposition MP Dayasiri Jayasekara said.Addressing a press...
  • SLFP reforms to be completed by June 30
    The Sri Lanka Freedom Party’s Central Committee yesterday decided to complete the party’s reform drive by June 30.The Central Committee arrived at this decision at a meeting chaired by President...
  • Power and Renewable Energy State Minister Ajith P. Perera receiving his appointment letter as UNP Trade Union Secretary from UNP Parliamentarian Sirinal de Mel, at the Jathika Sevaka Sangamaya headquarters at Pitakotte yesterday. Picture by Wasitha Patabendige
    Ajith pledges to bring justice to victimised UNPers
    The main reason for the three-year delay in meting out justice to UNPers subjected to political victimisation during the previous regime was that certain members of committees appointed at...
  • Do not criticise President – Mangala
    Finance and Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera asked recently not to criticise President Maithripala Sirisena in public or in private even if we would be able to elect a UNPer as President in future....
  • ‘President, undisputed leader of all communities’ Lakinda Nanayakkara
    There is a strong possibility for the two main parties to form a broad coalition and field President Maithripala Sirisena as a candidate for the 2020 Presidential election too, Southern Province...
  • ‘Victimisation of UNP supporters will be investigated’
    Public Administration and Home Affairs Minister Vajira Abeywardena yesterday said that around 800,000 families have being subjected to political victimisation during the past 20 years for been...
  • Addalaichenai Pradeshiya Sabha passes 2018 budget
    Annual budget of the Addalaichenai Pradeshiya Sabha was passed unanimously at a special meeting held at the Sabha recently.The budget meeting was presided over by Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman A.L....
  • Parliament
    Speaker says he needs a deputy speaker urgentlySpeaker Karu Jayasuriya yesterday in Parliament, said that the need for a Deputy Speaker is felt badly to as there was nobody to assist him in his work....
  • A.H.M. Fowzie sworn in as State Minister for National Unity and Reconciliation
    Veteran Sri Lankan politician A.H.M. Fowzie, 80 years old, was sworn in as the new State Minister of National Unity and Reconciliaiton before the President this morning.A member of the Sri Lanka...